[Solved] Can't get single apostrophe to appear without pressing spacebar after

[JohnnyJamesH]

Hello, I'm having some trouble lately with OpenOffice on a new computer. There's this feature that I don't know how to turn off where when I hit the single apostrophe key, it doesn't appear until I either hit the spacebar or press any other key, and if it happens to be a vocal, say u, I get an umlaut like ú. I never use umlauts and I'd like the apostrophe to appear immediately when I press the apostrophe key like it was in my old openoffice writer set up. Would vastly appreciate any help!

Alternately, if anyone knows how to save whatever the configuration I have for my old office is to some sort of template that I can then send to the new computer and have the new office automatically adjust to all my old paramaters and options, that'd be even better!

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Isn't it a feature from the operating system? Does it happen in other applications too?

For the profile, you can copy the whole of it, see: [Tutorial] The OpenOffice User Profile. Beware of the /backup folder that can be heavy if you have activated that feature (you can dismiss its content then).

[cwolan]

Perhaps the culprit is the United States-International keyboard layout?

See this article (section "Creating international characters").

[Bill]

The description of the problem does suggest that the keyboard layout may be set to US-International instead of US.

Windows keyboard layouts

[JohnnyJamesH]

Thank you gentlemen for all your help, you were absolutely right, it was set to international english. Once I knew the problem I was able to solve it by looking up intl.cpl on the start menu, going to the change keyboards tab, and removing international english.